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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Blog Tour and Book Review: The Kiss Off by Sarah Billington

I am so excited that I get to take part in this blog tour. Not only do I get to bring you my review of The Kiss Off today but tomorrow I also get to bring you a special interview by the author, Sarah Billington so make sure and check back tomorrow for the second part of the tour!

Synopsis:When sixteen year old
Poppy Douglas writes a song about her ex-boyfriend Cam and ex-friend
Nikki, she has no idea that her heartbreak is about to go global.

A
local band picks up her song from Youtube and soon she’s along for the
ride with her own fanbase as they blow up on the local club scene and
hit the international charts. Though it turns out leaving Cam behind
isn’t as easy as she had hoped.

Tangled in a web of unfinished
homework, ill-considered sexting and a new lead-singer boyfriend, Poppy
has a choice to make between the ex that inspired it all and the rock
God whose poster lines the inside of half the lockers at school. But as
she struggles to keep her emotional dirty laundry private, she learns
that the truth can be hard to find when your life is in the headlines.

About the Author:

Sarah Billington is an
Australian writer and editor who likes to write stories with love,
laughs, suspense and zombies. Sometimes all in the same story.

She
writes predominantly light Young Adult fiction under her name, Sarah
Billington, but if you're interested in something a bit darker and
scarier you could try out her other persona, Edwina Ray's writing.
Edwina Ray is an Amazon best selling author. This makes Sarah Billington
very jealous.

Sarah loves a variety of random things, which
include Swing Dancing, Ice Hockey, Roller Derby and is a bit obsessive
about paranormal investigation shows and channel E!. She has also become
known as "the zombie girl" because of her fascination with all things
zombie. She doesn't quite know how that happened, but she's going with
it.

This was one of those fun reads that is
nice to get into when you have a couple of hours to spare and want
something that will make you laugh at times but also has some more
serious topics in it as well.

And I have to say, I like how it
handled those more serious issues. Poppy wasn't perfect by any means,
she made a lot of mistakes and some crazy bad choices but there were
always consequences for those mistakes. Some good and some bad and I
really liked that about this book. I liked that it felt real even if
that meant getting a lot of teenage angst and all the chaos that
comes with growing up along the way.

I did enjoy this read but I wish the
characters would have been a little more fleshed out. Their
personalities and even physical description were lacking. We only got
small glimpses here and there about what they looked like and how
they all knew each other. How long they had been friends. We get the
idea that they had known each other forever but that was about it. We
never even get to learn how old Poppy's brother and sister are in the
story.

Even with the lack of description, this
was still a good read and one that I am glad I read. I didn't foresee
all the events that took place and I definitely didn't predict who
Poppy would end up with in the end, which is always a good thing.

I would definitely check out the sequel
when it is released.I give this one 3.5 Stars!

News About the Sequel:

COMING 2013

The money's in! Poppy's royalties for penning the accidental hit songThe Kiss Off that shot her boyfriend's band to super-stardom are inand she knows EXACTLY what she's doing with it.

EXCERPT:“See that?” I said, pointing at the feature band name on the flyer.“Academy of Lies are headlining Bay Fest over in Tallulah Shores.”“They’re headlining? Are you serious?” Mads said.I grinned. “Pack your bags, baby.”“Shut up.”“Two words: road trip,” I said. “One word: camping.”“Shut
up.”“Five wor — is it five? Yeah — five words: One week by the sea.”“Shut up.”“Four more words-”“Enough with the words already.”“I’m nearly done,” I said, “four final words: you, me and Van.”She bit her bottom lip, staring at me when her hands started wringingin front of her again. And she started bouncing.“No,” I said, “no, no. You shut up. You start screaming again andyou’re not coming.”Instead, Mads squeezed me in a bear hug and planted a kiss on mycheek. “I’m going to Babe Fest. I’m going to Babe Fest!”Bay Music Festival. Of all the nicknames in the world, it could havebeen a lot worse.

7 comments:

I wanted to sign up for a tour for this book! I love books about music and also revenge. LOL Writing a song about your ex is an interesting idea! I should make one and see if I go viral! hehe Always great when a book can surprise you and you don't know who the character will end up with.

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